Phyllacanthus mitchelli Emmonds 1858 (pencil urchin)

Echinoidea - Cidaroida - Cidaridae

Alternative combination: Cidaris mitchelli

Belongs to Phyllacanthus according to P. M. Kier 1980

See also Clark and Twitchell 1915 and Donovan and Clark 2015

Sister taxa: Phyllacanthus carolinensis, Phyllacanthus clarkei, Phyllacanthus imperialis, Phyllacanthus javanus, Phyllacanthus leoni, Phyllacanthus mortoni

Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal grazer-omnivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Phyllacanthus mitchelli in the database

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